PRESENTATION TO MR & MRS PATERSON.

Grey River Argus, 4 February 1910, Page 2

PRESENTATION TO MR & MRS PATERSON.

L * A very pleasiirgrceremony .took place j ; iai' the Post r{)ffiee! )'. Hotel last evening i [wheii the : committee:; of . the Scottish ! Society assembled - : to* bid . goodbye^to / . Mr and Mrs Paterson. .Dr McKay .ogr „-V. cupied the chaiiv and. in an exdi^^:^ : speech referred to the rrfrrnf ' i jjjjMinr'TW . at losing ' ■■■snt»]v j^t.t^^^J^rop^iWML^S; .'-*:'' .the town. 7 He a^a^p^tt^since ■■ Mr s - moy£&giwis?plti@; proved tliemselvjes'exOn behalf oEVthe' com mittee; of 'tlie Scottish Society' he presented Pa terisqh with a. handsome ■ gentleman's v'tKwellmg case. .The inscription tsuitiibl.v" e^^^^ was -"Ta^ Jock frae tliev;,<xrey Brither. Scots."" 1-Hi© presentations, he said, wereniade j out of respect and regard and he re- • gretted: [that sucifc; .;[. excellent people (' were 1 - leaving wfche' Coast. .■■■:"' Mr | Kerr endorsed the chairman's I remarks, stating '.-that Mr Paterson had proved hiniself a gentleman . in every respect. ; .He wished Mr and Mrs Pater j son every success ; ih whatever- place j they "decided to j. Settle iii. . I :Mr It. Russell' said -Mr Patersoii was ■■ a . man \vho imoroved ;;6n acquaintance. He had jeiirn^d to; respeist and ■ esW;m>-* ' him. :He w-ished-iMr aiid Mrs Patersor^ t - a full measum[pf -^prosperity n [il»e fu>j yur'*. • : '''-]\^.\- : :i' J^.\: '■'-„- ■- . ' ■ HB^^fl -'- vMr Patersoß^said- he was no. sr-os-kerl^^H 'But. the presient occasion called forth vHjsV[ut^"!«+'--.'w'-fclw«w&Tn. He -.v:.s lionorAiJrahd: deligliteJcU at the ■presentation to his^wife and himself. His-. ;.-•'.*» ts ~^re""«Titit.'ed to' the .reoept.ioii . tbsm /Ki^self;^He; felt grateful "that, his *F'■rfrMk'- had heeii appreciated- and he ■nrnild ever^dorhi^ best towards the iinitj p- ;■;-.:•. of the Scotch ipeople. _ -: J During'^/ : ;'ttie;'evenjng..'- n tber, ; ;"'t6flsts i .vf*-* proposed [ .and raqponded to. ! •-^The^ : ..;gatHerinc:-."-^'^ii?ners'e{'.twitli th* '.•Fmsinp. ■■■••.■'of ' c A,i'W-'.."£aii'p rr Syne" and three cheers for, Mr and -Mrs Paterson and family; . ; ;■- : ; v" .:: ' ;